2006 Conference Abstracts

Adams, V., Lyras, D., Ballard, S.A., Teng, W.L., Howarth, P., Crellin, P.K., Bannam, T.L., Songer, J.G. and Rood, J.I. (2006) Identification and characterisation of the lincomycin resistance transposon, Tn4460, from Clostridium perfringens, 5th International Meeting on the Molecular Biology and Pathogenesis of the Clostridia, Nottingham, UK, 2006.

Adler, B. (2006) Protein vaccines against leptospirosis: why is it so difficult? 6th Scientific Meeting of the Indian Leptospirosis Society, Hyderabad, India, 2006.

Adler, B. (2006) Leptospira vaccines, Leptospirosis 2006 3rd International Workshop and Scientific Meeting, Havana, Cuba, 2006.

Adler, B. (2006) Pathogenesis and phylogeny of Leptospira, Leptospirosis 2006 3rd International Workshop and Scientific Meeting, Havana, Cuba, 2006.

Adler, B. (2006) Genomics of Leptospira, Leptospirosis 2006 3rd International Workshop and Scientific Meeting, Havana, Cuba, 2006.

Al-Hasani, K., McCarl, V., Bottomley, S., Adler, B. and Boyce, J. (2006) Genomic and proteomics approaches for vaccine development in Pasteurella multocida, 4th Recombinant Protein Production Meeting, Barcelona, Spain, 2006.

Bannam, T.L., Teng, W.L., Parsons, J.A., Bulach, D., Lyras, D., Poon, R., Hughes, M., Adams, V., Devenish, R.J. and Rood, J.I. (2006) The mechanism of conjugation in C. perfringens, 5th International Meeting on the Molecular Biology and Pathogenesis of the Clostridia, Nottingham, UK, 2006.

Battad, J., Devenish, R.J. and Prescott, M. (2006) ‘Finding the switch’: mutagenesis to determine the role of key residues for the photoactivation of a novel chromoprotein, ComBio2006, Brisbane, Queensland, 2006.

Battad, J.M., Wilmann, P., Turcic, K., Devenish, R.J., Rossjohn, J. and Prescott, M. (2006) ‘Kindling in the dark’: the structural basis for the pH-induced increase in fluorescence of quantum yield of a chromoprotein, 31st Annual Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function, Lorne, Victoria, 2006.

Chen, Y., McClane, B., Fisher, D., Rood, J.I. and Gupta, P. (2006) Sequence specific mutagenesis by targetron: disrupt endogenous genes and introduce foreign gene in C. perfringens chromosome, 5th International Meeting on the Molecular Biology and Pathogenesis of the Clostridia, Nottingham, UK, 2006.

Cheung, J.K., McGowan, S., Awad, M.M., Katayama, S. and Rood, J.I. (2006) Transcriptional activation of the pfoA gene from Clostridium perfringens, 5th International Meeting on the Molecular Biology and Pathogenesis of the Clostridia, Nottingham, UK, 2006.

Chiarezza, M., Daniel, L., Pidot, S., Emmins, J.J., Lyras, D. and Rood, J.I. (2006) The large sialidase, NanI, of Clostridium perfringens is not essential for virulence, 5th International Meeting on the Molecular Biology and Pathogenesis of the Clostridia, Nottingham, UK, 2006.

Fernandez-Miyakawa, M.E., Fisher, D.J., Sayeed, S., Poon, R., Adams, V., Rood, J.I., McClane, B.A. and Uzal, F.A. (2006) Toxigenic characteristics of Clostridium perfringens type B, 5th International Meeting on the Molecular Biology and Pathogenesis of the Clostridia, Nottingham, UK, 2006.

Fernandez-Miyakawa, M.E., Sayeed, S., Rood, J.I., McClane, B.A. and Uzal, F.A. (2006) Clostridium perfringens Epsilon Toxin Increases Small Intestinal Permeability, 5th International Meeting on the Molecular Biology and Pathogenesis of the Clostridia, Nottingham, UK, 2006.

Fisher, D.J., Miyakawa, M., Sayeed, S., Poon, R., Adams, V., Rood, J.I., Uzal, F. and McClane, B.A. (2006) Dissecting the Lethality Contributions of Clostridium Perfringens Type C Toxins Using a Mouse Intravenous Injection Model, Annual Scientific meeting, American Society for Microbiology, Orlando, Fl, USA, 2006.

Fisher, D.J., Fernandez-Miyakawa, M.E., Sayeed, S., Poon, R., Adams, V., Rood, J.I., Uzal, F.A. and McClane, B.A. (2006) The role of toxins from Clostridium perfringens type C in the mouse intravenous model, 5th International Meeting on the Molecular Biology and Pathogenesis of the Clostridia, Nottingham, UK, 2006.

Kennedy, C., Daniel, L., Melton, J., Emmins, J., Lyras, D., Tweten, R. and Rood, J.I. (2006) Mutational analysis of the functional domains of Clostridium septicum α-toxin, 5th International Meeting on the Molecular Biology and Pathogenesis of the Clostridia, Nottingham, UK, 2006.

Keyburn, A.L., Sheedy, S.A., Ford, M.E., Williamson, M., Awad, M.M., Rood, J.I. and Moore, R.J. (2006) The alpha toxin of Clostridium perfringens is not an essential virulence factor in necrotic enteritis in chickens, 5th International Meeting on the Molecular Biology and Pathogenesis of the Clostridia, Nottingham, UK, 2006.

Lai, Z.W., Rebecca, A., Mu, F.-T., Robert, K., Andrews, A. and Smith, A.I. (2006) The role of Calmodulin in Regulating Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 (ACE2) Ectodomain Shedding: Identification of a Calmodulin-binding Domain within the Cytoplasmic tail of ACE2, ComBio2006, Brisbane, 2006.

Lai, Z.W., Yarski, M.A., Warner, F.J., Lew, R.A. and Smith, A.I. (2006) Characterisation of Ectodomain Shedding of Angiotensin Converting Enzyme 2 (ACE2), 31st Annual Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function, Lorne, Victoria.

Lew, R.A., Hanchapola, I. and Smith, A.I. (2006) Angiotensin converting enzyme-2 (ACE2) activity is increased in hepatic cell lines in response to hypoxia and ischemia in vitro, ComBio2006, Brisbane, 2006.

Lew, R.A., Warner, F.J., Yarski, M.A., Jay, M., Burrell, L.M. and Smith, A.I. (2006) Shedding of angiotensin converting enzyme-2 and its presence in human plasma and urine, 31st Annual Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function, Lorne, Victoria, 2006.

Lyras, D., O’Connor, J.R., Howarth, P., Carter, G. and Rood, J.I. (2006) Genetic analysis of the tcdA and tcdB genes from Clostridium difficile, 5th International Meeting on the Molecular Biology and Pathogenesis of the Clostridia, Nottingham, UK, 2006.

Mijaljica, D., Rosado, C., Christopoulos, M., Prescott, M. and Devenish, R.J. (2006) ‘Organellophagy' - specific turnover of mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum?, 31st Annual Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function, Lorne, Victoria, 2006.

O’Connor, J.R., Lyras, D., Adams, V., Powell, D., Cheung, J.K., Hinds, J., Farrow, K.A. and Rood, J.I. (2006) Construction and transcriptional analysis of Clostridium difficile response regulator mutants, 5th International Meeting on the Molecular Biology and Pathogenesis of the Clostridia, Nottingham, UK, 2006.

Parsons, J.A., Bannam, T.L., Devenish, R.J. and Rood, J.I. (2006) The tcpA gene is required for the conjugative transfer of pCW3 in C. perfringens, International Symposium on Plasmid Biology, South Lake Tahoe, CA, USA, 2006.

Parker, D., Myers, G.S., Kennan, R.M., Songer, J.G., Paulsen, I.T. and Rood, J.I. (2006) Genome sequence and genome typing of the ovine footrot pathogen, Dichelobacter nodosus, Annual Scientific meeting, Australian Society for Microbiology, Gold Coast, Australia, 2006.

Pettikikriarachchi, A., Devenish, R.J. and Prescott, M. (2006) ‘Chromoprotein blues’ - recolouring a monomeric chromoprotein using random mutagenesis, 31st Annual Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function, Lorne, Victoria, 2006.

Poon, R., Hughes, M.L., Adams, V., Uzal, F.A., McClane, B.A. and Rood, J.I. (2006) The large epsilon toxin plasmid of C. perfringens type D is conjugative, 5th International Meeting on the Molecular Biology and Pathogenesis of the Clostridia, Nottingham, UK, 2006.

Prescott, M., Mijaljica, D., Rosado, C., Christopoulos, M., Grunberg, R. and Devenish, R.J. (2006) Where do organelles go when they die? 31st Annual Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function, Lorne, Victoria, 2006.

Rood, J. I., Bannam, T.L., Teng, W.L., Parsons, J.A., Bulach, D., Bantwal, R., Poon, R., Hughes, M., Adams, V., Lyras, D. and Devenish, R.J. (2006) Conjugative plasmid transfer in Clostridium perfringens requires the tcp locus, an ancient descendant of Tn916, International Symposium on Plasmid Biology, South Lake Tahoe, CA, USA, 2006.

Ryan, C., Whisstock, J., Cheung, J., Turner, S. and Davies, J. (2006) Transcriptional regulation of the pilE gene of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, 15th International Pathogenic Neisseria Conference, Cairns, Australia, 2006.

Sayeed, S., Rood, J.I., Uzal, F.A. and McClane, B.A., (2006) Diversity of Epsilon Toxin-Encoding Plasmids Among Clostridium perfringens Type D Isolates, Annual Scientific meeting, American Society for Microbiology, Orlando, Fl, USA, 2006.

Sayeed, S., Rood, J.I., Uzal, F.A. and McClane, B.A. (2006) Diversity of Epsilon Toxin-Encoding Plasmids Among Clostridium perfringens Type D Isolates, 5th International Meeting on the Molecular Biology and Pathogenesis of the Clostridia, Nottingham, UK, 2006.

Smith, A.I., Autelitano, D.J., Rajic, A., Berndt, M.C., Ilag, L.L. and Vadas, M. Cryptomics: (2006) Identification of Novel Bioactive Peptides from Human Tissue Extracts, Human Proteome Organisation (HUPO) 5th Annual World Congress, Long Beach, California, USA, 2006.

Teng, W.L., Bannam, T.L. and Rood, J.I. (2006) Conjugative plasmid transfer in Clostridium perfringens: functional characterisation and localisation of the pCW3-encoded TcpH protein, a homologue of ORF15 from Tn916, International Symposium on Plasmid Biology, South Lake Tahoe, CA, USA, 2006.

Turcic, K., Rosado, C., Mijaljica, D., Prescott, M. and Devenish, R.J. (2006) Turnover of mitochondria in yeast: towards specificity? 4th International Symposium on Autophagy (ISA), Exploring the Frontiers of Expanding Autophagy Research, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan, 2006.

Turcic, K., Pettikikriarachchi, A., Battad, J.M., Devenish, R.J. and Prescott, M. (2006) Amino acid substitutions near the chromophore of the chromoprotein Rtms5, influence polypeptide fragmentation, 31st Annual Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function, Lorne, Victoria, 2006.

Turner, S.A., Lyons-Schindler, S., Kahler, C. and Davies, J.K. (2006) The use of microarray in assessing the role of IHF in Neisseria meningitidis gene regulation, 15th International Pathogenic Neisseria Conference, Cairns, Australia, 2006.